The debate, which Martina Mascarenhas, Communications and Knowledge Management Coordinator for the CGIAR Gender Research Network at CIAT, has summarized below, focused on the practical requirements for implementing gender-sensitive land restoration while moving beyond the usual rhetoric on gender issues and laying to rest exaggerated gender statistics.

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